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Future Accounting Pronouncements | 12 Months Ended
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Dec. 31, 2018
New Accounting Pronouncements [Abstract] |
FUTURE ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS | 3. FUTURE ACCOUNTING PRONOUNCEMENTS The Company considers the applicability and impact of all ASUs issued by the FASB. The following updates have been issued by the FASB, but have not yet been adopted by Emera. Any ASUs not included below were assessed and determined to be either not applicable to the Company or have an insignificant impact on the consolidated financial statements. Leases In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, Leases. The standard, codified as ASC Topic 842, increases transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing lease assets and liabilities on the balance sheet for leases with terms of more than 12 months. Under the previous guidance, operating leases are not recorded as assets and liabilities on the balance sheet. The effect of leases on the Consolidated Statements of Income and the Consolidated Statements of Cash Flows is largely unchanged. The guidance will require additional disclosures regarding key information about leasing arrangements. This guidance is effective for annual reporting periods, including interim reporting within those periods, beginning after December 15, 2018. Early adoption is permitted and is required to be applied using a modified retrospective approach. The Company will not early adopt the standard. In January 2018, the FASB issued an amendment to ASC Topic 842 that permits companies to elect to not evaluate existing land easements under the new standard if the land easements were not previously accounted for under existing lease guidance. The Company will make this election. In July 2018, the FASB issued an amendment to ASC Topic 842 that permits companies to elect not to restate their comparative periods in the period of adoption when transitioning to the standard. The Company will make this election. Additionally, the Company will elect the options that allow the Company to not reassess whether any expired or existing contracts contain leases, carry forward existing lease classification, use hindsight to determine the lease term for existing leases and not separate lease components from non-lease components for all lessee and lessor arrangements. Over the past several years, the Company developed and executed a project plan which included holding training sessions with key stakeholders throughout the organization, gathering detailed information on existing lease arrangements, evaluating implementation alternatives and calculating the lease asset and liability balances associated with individual contractual arrangements. The Company has implemented additional processes and controls to facilitate the identification, tracking and reporting of potential leases based on the requirements of the standard. Updates to systems are not required as a result of implementation of this standard. The adoption of this standard will affect the Company’s financial position by increasing assets and liabilities related to operating leases by approximately $70 million, with no impact to the Company’s Consolidated Statements of Income. There will be no significant changes to the Company’s accounting for lessor arrangements as a result of the adoption of the standard. The Company is in the process of assessing the disclosure requirements and continues to monitor FASB amendments to ASC Topic 842. Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, Measurement of Credit Losses on Financial Instruments. The standard provides guidance regarding the measurement of credit losses for financial assets and certain other instruments that are not accounted for at fair value through net income, including trade and other receivables, debt securities, net investment in leases, and off-balance sheet credit exposures. The new guidance requires companies to replace the current incurred loss impairment methodology with a methodology that measures all expected credit losses for financial assets based on historical experience, current conditions, and reasonable and supportable forecasts. The guidance expands the disclosure requirements regarding credit losses, including the credit loss methodology and credit quality indicators. This guidance will be effective for annual reporting periods, including interim reporting within those periods, beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted for annual reporting periods, including interim periods after December 15, 2018 and will be applied using a modified retrospective approach. The Company is currently evaluating the impact of adoption of this standard on its consolidated financial statements. Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities In August 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-12, Targeted Improvements to Accounting for Hedging Activities, which amends the hedge accounting recognition and presentation requirements in ASC Topic 815. This standard improves the transparency and understandability of information about an entity’s risk management activities by better aligning the entity’s financial reporting for hedging relationships with those risk management activities and simplifies the application of hedge accounting. The standard will make more financial and nonfinancial hedging strategies eligible for hedge accounting, amends the presentation and disclosure requirements for hedging activities and changes how entities assess hedge effectiveness. This guidance will be effective for annual reporting periods, including interim reporting within those periods, beginning after December 15, 2018, with early adoption permitted, and is required to be applied using a modified retrospective approach. The adoption of this standard will have no impact on the Company’s consolidated financial statements. Cloud Computing In August 2018, the FASB issued ASU 2018-15, Customer’s Accounting for Implementation Costs Incurred in a Cloud Computing Arrangement That Is a Service Contract. The standard allows entities who are customers in hosting arrangements that are service contracts to apply the existing internal-use software guidance to determine which implementation costs to capitalize as an asset related to the service contract and which costs to expense. The guidance specifies classification for capitalizing implementation costs and related amortization expense within the financial statements and requires additional disclosures. The guidance will be effective for annual reporting periods, including interim reporting within those periods, beginning after December 15, 2019. Early adoption is permitted and can be applied either retrospectively or prospectively. The Company is currently evaluating the transition methods and the impact of the adoption of this standard on the consolidated financial statements.

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